Sigur Rós post-rock genre I'm in love

Yah i know i was moving my blog. But figured something out. If i post here i can send my blog to all my pages, so giving it a test.

Sigur Rós my new best music to paint too   

I'm not sure about other artist but I love (no need) to listen to music that touches the soul when i paint. I have a lot of favorite bands I use on a regular basis such as, Tool, Muse, Rush, Soundgarden, Radiohead, After Forever and such.

Today I was looking for some new stuff to listen too on Last.fm and did a search for Sigur Rós, 

There is a story behind me finding this Icelandic band.

I had first heard them when i was watching a documentary they did named,

Heima

I immediately fell in love with their music, their look, their sound, their cause, and wrote the name of the band down in a note pad and on my calendar so I could look them up at a later time. Well needless say life got busy and i forgot about this wonderful band and the feeling they gave me when i was listening to their music. The note pad was lost the calendar had expired and been thrown out and the name of the band was forgotten.

Now, I like to watch movies that are bit on the odd side and not so popular. I often do this when I'm alone and the house is quite as my family does not share my passion for odd films. I have about 60 or so saved on my playlist for just such times. One of these was a movie called

Ondine

In this movie they mentioned Sigur Ros. I knew immediately this was the name of the band i had lost at least 3 years ago. This time I remembered the name of the band. Today I decided to look them up and listen too Sigur Ros radio on Last.fm. This station is tagged as Post-Rock. I believe i have found my favorite music genre. I have been tagging every band with a heart and adding to a playlist so i don't forget the names. I am so bad at remembering band names, which can be very frustrating when i hear music i love and cant remember who it was.

I fell as though i have found a lost dear friend and that this music is going to inspire many paintings yet to be discovered in my head. This is so exciting i cant wait to get started on the next painting.

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Elk Bugle's and Cloudcroft New Mexico

 Yes i know its a bad photo. If your read on there's a story behind it.

I went to Cloudcroft Last Sunday with a couple of other students in my digital photography class. The first challenge was getting up at 4:45 so we could try to get there to catch the Elk and get some shots of them, our main goal for going at such an ungodly hour. I am not a morning person so this was a major hurdle, but I set the alarm on my phone and was able to get going and out the door by 5:15.

I knew the elk would not have cameras so there was no need for makeup or doing my hair....however I failed to remember my photography friends would have cameras and are quite sneaky at taking photos of each other when were not looking. I'm not much of one for really being concerned about the makeup and hair anyways but when i realized one of my friends was using a candid photo of me to turn in for her assignment i was thinking, hummmm maybe i should have at least warmed up the hair straightener.  Oh well guess theirs a lot to be said for the all natural look, lol, and it was not worth giving up that 15 more minutes of sleep.

Raw files now working in CS4

Well for some how my Raw files will now open in Photoshop CS4. Don't know if it is because I'm using the camera software to download off the card but that seems to be the only thing I can think of. I'm running CS2 at home and even though I have updated the camera raw plug it will not  work but used CS4 in class and it works now. All I can say is yay. Now its time to go get some blank disk so I can clean out my portable hard drive. Even after editing and cleaning out files and bad pics I still have eleventy billion pics taking up space. So easy to get carried away using a digital camera.  I've been putting it off but time to clean house or im gonna run out of space for all the wonderful fun pics in my future. There out there calling me to take them I can hear them now while I sit at my desk. Well time to go get some work done. later all.